358 ANATID^. 



(Vancouver) ; Ball ^ Barin. Tr. Chic. Acad. i. p. 298 (1869) ; 



Allen, Bull. Mus. Cmnp. Zool. iii. p. 183 (Kansas and Utah) (1872) ; 



Snoic, B. Kmis. p. 11 (1873) ; Lawr. Mem. Bost. Soc. N'. H. ii. p. 315 



(Mazatlan) (1874) ; Ridgw. Numencl. N. Am. B. n. 614 (1881) ; 



£.,B.,^ R. Wnter-B. N. Am. ii. p. 18 (part.) (1884); Coues, 



Key N. Am. B. 2nd ed. p. 701, n. 720 (part.) (1884); Nehrl. 



J.f. 0.1885, p. 147; Matschie ^ Ziemer,ibid. p. 191 (Bering Sea). 

 ? Fuli^ula mariloides, Wied [nee Vig.),J.f. 0. 1859, p. 176 (Mis- 

 souri). 

 Anas marila, Mart. J. f. O. 1859, p. 221 (Bemiuda) ; Walker, Ibis, 



1860, p. 166 (Godhavn, Greenland) ; Gieb. Thes. Orn. i. p. 356 



(1872). 

 Aythva marila nearctica, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Nat. Mus. no. 29, p. 161 



(1885); A. O. U. Check-list N. Am. B. p. 119, n. 148 (1886); 



Turner, Contr. N. H. Alaska, p. 133 (1886) ; Nelson, Nat. Hist. 



Coll. in Alaska, p. 71 (1887) ; Ridgio. Man. N. Am. B. p. 103 



(1887); Richmond, Auk, 1888, p. 19 (Mt. Vernon, Columbia); 



Merrill, ibid. p. 142 f Oregon ) ; Schalow, J.f. 0. 1891, p. 268; 



Hatch, B. of Minnes. p.' 58 (1892) ; Mackay, Auk, 1894, p. 225. 

 Fuligula marila nearctica, Hartert, Kat. Vogelsamml. p. 232 (1891). 



Eastern Asia (F. mariloides). 

 Fuligula marila, Vig. Zool. Voy. 'Blo.ssotn,' p. 31 (1839). 

 Fuligula mariloides, Vig. Zool. Voy. '■Blossom,^ p. 31 (in text) (1839) ; 



G. R. Or. Gen. B. iii. p. 621. n. 4 (part.) (1844) ; Cass. Pr. Ac. 



Philad. 1862, p. 322 (Loo-cho'o I.) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 312 



(Zool. Card.); Stvinh. Ibis, 1877, p. 147; David 4- Oust. Ois. 



Chine, p. 608 (1877) ; Vian, Bull. Soc. Zool. Fr. iii. p. 61 (1878) ; 



Blakist. ii- Pryer, Ibis, 1878, p. 215 (Yezo) ; Sclat. P. Z. S. 1880, 



p. 525 ; Rchnw. Orn. Cmitralbl. 1882, p. 5 ; id. Voc/. zool. Gart. 



p. 45 (1882); Sclat. List Vert An. 8th ed. p. 440 (1883); Sty an, 



Ibis, 1891, p. 497. 

 Fulix mariloides, Swinh. P. Z. S. 1873, p. 412 (Ningpo) ; id. Ibis, 



1875, p. 457 (Hakodadi) ; Blakist. ^ Pryer, Tr. As. Soc. Japan, i. 



p. 99 (1882). 

 Aythia affinis mariloides, Stejn. Bull. U.S. Kat. Mus. no. 29, p. 161 



'(1885) ; Ridgw. Man. N. Am. B. p. 103 (1887). 

 Fuligula marila, part., Seeb. B. Jap. Emp. p. 266 (1890). 



Adult male. Head, neck, upper part of the breast and of the 

 back black ; sides of the head and upper neck glossed with green ; 

 rest of the back and scapulars white, narrowly barred with black ; 

 rump, upper and under tail-coverts black ; lower breast, abdomen, 

 and sides white -. the vent somewhat greyish : the sides with black 

 barrings ; upper wing-coverts blackish, finely vermiculated with 

 white ; secondaries white, forming the speculum, which is bounded 

 below by a blackish band, in some specimens more or less freckled 

 with white ; tertials blackish with a green gloss, the larger ones 

 more or less finely dusted with whitish ; primaries greyish brown, 

 from the fourth quill with a whitish area on the inner web, the tips 

 black ; the marginal under wing-coverts greyish brown, dusted with 

 white, the remainder, as well as the axillaries, white ; tail blackish : 

 bill and legs light lead-grey, webs and nail of the bill blackish ; 

 iris yellow. Total length about 18 inches, wing 9'25, tail 2-9, 

 culmen 1'8, tarsus 1*4. 



Female. Fore part of the head and chin white ; rest of the head, 



